Money and Thoughtlessness

Justin Pack is a Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Stanislaus, USA.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Money, Myths, and Thoughtlessness.- 3 The Neolithic Revolution: From Social Currencies to Debt.- 4 The Axial Age.- 5 Animist Ontologies, Abstraction, and Slavery.- 6 Mastering Money: Usury, Governance and Science in Medieval Europe.- 7 The Modern Attacks on the Traditional Suspicions of Money and Merchants.- 8 Against Homo Economicus: Mauss and Gift Cultures.- 9 The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Contemporary Cynicism.- 10 Money and Thoughtlessness: Abstraction, Quantification, Adiaphorization.- 11 Conclusions.